Vanderbilt, Meharry establish new Center for AIDS Research
...in HIV infection," he added. African-Americans are disproportionately affected by HIV, and rates of infection are higher in the Southeast than in other parts of the country. Local resources The new center is the latest example of scientific collaborations between Meharry and Vanderbilt that aim to understand and redu...Researchers discover effective method for killing prostate cancer cells
...ill die of this disease. African-American men are disproportionately affected by the disease....Gene activated in 80% of breast cancer patients
... prove especially helpful to AfricanAmericans, who disproportionately expressed the new gene. BP1expression was found in only one of seven samples of normalbreast tissue. Gene therapy targeting BP1 is also a possibility for the future.If a drug can be found which turns off the gene, it could helppeople with non-heredit...Gene expressed in 80% of breast cancer patients
...prove especially helpful to African Americans, who disproportionately expressed the new gene." Dr. Berg pointed to more than 1.2 million people diagnosed with breast cancer annually, including 205,000 in the U.S., and stated, "We hope that this kind of research can make a real difference in addressing a major disease."...Lead by example to get your kids to eat right, experts say
...igned to encourage African-Americans, who are at a disproportionately higher risk of developing cancer, to eat more fruits and veggies and reduce the amount of fat in their daily diets so they will stay healthy. The four-year public health initiative at Saint Louis University School of Public Health is funded by a $2 m...Free shuttles can close the grocery gap
...for heart disease, cancer and other illnesses that disproportionately affect minorities. The grocery gap in inner-city neighborhoods has long been of concern to public health experts. A 1995 study of 21 major metropolitan areas nationwide conducted by researchers at the University of Connecticut found a third as many s...OSU genetics expert wins award for lifetime achievement
...ic footprint behind a number of disorders that are disproportionately represented in the Finnish population. The Finnish population is a prototypical founder population, displaying many characteristics and genetic bottlenecks that make it fertile ground for genetics research. Over the years, approximately 34 heredit...African-Americans more likely to lose limbs due to vascular disease than other groups
...mputations in the general population combined with disproportionately higher rates among African Americans are concerning and warrant further investigation into their underlying causes and consequences," says Timothy R. Dillingham, M.D., lead author of the study and associate professor in the Johns Hopkins' physical me...Some people of African descent more susceptible to heart condition, Science study suggests
...y African Americans, and found that the allele was disproportionately common among arrhythmia cases. The researchers also studied the extended family of one African American individual with arrhythmia. Eleven out of 23 members had related heart irregularities, and all 11 had the Y1102 allele. Researchers have discovere...Gene variant increases risk of cardiac arrhythmia for African-Americans
...es also found that the Y1102 polymorphism occurred disproportionately in African-American patients with arrhythmia and in all phenotypically affected members of one African-American family. "It would appear that this variant originated in Africa long ago, and been in that population for some time," said Keating. "And t...HIV targets active genes in cells
...chers found that the genes that were targeted were disproportionately active ones. In fact, Bushman said, the genes that are targeted are specifically ones that are turned on by infection with HIV itself. When the virus enters a cell, it triggers a response by the cell that includes making new proteins in response to t...Study identifies hypertension patients who can benefit from the little used diuretic amiloride
...er with potentially devastating complications that disproportionately affects the black community. It accounts for approximately 25 percent of all cases of end stage renal disease in the African-American population. Since patients have no symptoms, it frequently goes undiagnosed. Excellent treatments are available; h...Study identifies protein in human brain development
...help to explain why the brain's cerebral cortex is disproportionately larger in humans than in other species, a finding which appears in the July 19 issue of Science and adds an important piece to the developing "blueprint" of the part of the brain responsible for the intellectual abilities that make humans unique. "T...Scientist explores the future of research collaboration
...vity later and elite scientific journals published disproportionately more collaborative papers than did less prestigious journals. They still do. Today over 90 percent of papers in some journals are collaborative. The organization of scientific research has changed over the years, from associations of two to four i...HIV selectively suppresses anti-HIV defense cells
...s the immune systems response against the virus by disproportionately infecting the very cells designed to fight it. In fact, CD4+ T cells programmed to fight HIV are two to five times more likely to be infected with HIV than CD4+T cells programmed to take on other pathogens. This finding not only helps us better under...Researchers to compare prenatal treatments for serious twin complication
...gnancies annually in the U.S., the condition has a disproportionately high impact. In approximately 17 percent of cases in which a twin dies before, during or shortly after birth, the cause is TTTS. Estimates of the frequency of TTTS vary widely because of differing criteria for diagnosing the syndrome. Timothy M. Crom...New findings could lead to innovative treatment technologies for patients with sickle cell
... recurrent pain, and premature death. It is found disproportionately among those of African descent, and affects approximately 60,000 Americans and millions worldwide. Normal red blood cells are disc-shaped and resemble doughnuts; they travel through the small blood tubes in the body called blood vessels to deliver n...Experimental Biology 2002, Translating the Genome
...cs to help solve problems related to diseases that disproportionately affect minority populations. Scientists also have the opportunity to see the newest advances in technology, both in key papers and in an exposition of scientific equipment, supplies and publications that will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday th...Hurricane floods pose risk to environment, health, new research on 1999 storm reveals
...om past research we knew that swine operations are disproportionately located in low-income communities and communities of color, Wing said. Blacks were 16 percent more likely than whites to live in areas with flooded animal operations, according to estimates based on satellite data, researchers found. In contrast, bl...Human and fly studies tally good and bad mutations, stress ongoing role of natural selection
...f ongoing rapid evolution. These genes contribute disproportionately to the total number of changes, says Wu. Most of these genes, note the authors, are involved in processes such as disease resistance or sexual reproduction, areas where there is "continually room for improvement." By studying variation within human g...